Boeing CH-47F Chinook production will dip to 40 aircraft per year as the company enters a Block II development program that doesn’t hit the production line until 2021.
Airbus Helicopters has signed a contract with the Kuwait Ministry of Defence for the purchase of 30 H225M Caracal multirole utility helicopters as well as an associated support and services package.
The U.S. Army wants a next-generation Manned-Unmanned Teaming (MUM-T) capability that will allow attack helicopter crews to control any unmanned systems in the battlespace.
As the Sierra Nevada Corp./Embraer A-29 Super Tucano begins battling the Taliban, the U.S. Air Force is laying the contractual foundation for the production of another four aircraft for the Afghan air arm.
The powerful storm cleared KSC at mid-morning Oct. 7, leaving what appeared to be limited roof damage to buildings and other facilities, disrupted electrical and water utilities and scattered debris, according to NASA.
Roscosmos, the Russian federal space agency, has set Oct. 19 as the new launch date for the Soyuz MS-02 with a three-man U.S. and Russian crew to the International Space Station.
The program will beef-up the Chinook by introducing an Advanced Composite Rotor Blade and increasing the aircraft’s maximum gross takeoff weight from 50,000 lb. to 54,000 lb.
South Korea’s Kill Chain program to create a capability for pre-empting North Korean attack has come under criticism for unbalanced spending and technical shortcomings.
GKN, which builds the airframe of the Wildcat, sent its workers home early on Oct. 7 after announcing to the 300-strong workforce that Leonardo plans to take the work in-house.
The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has lifted its grounding of Airbus’ EC225/H225 and AS332L2 Super Puma helicopters imposed after the fatal crash of an aircraft in Norway in April. But British and Norwegian civil aviation authorities are maintaining their grounding.
In this week’s Washington Outlook, research funding for advanced helicopter engines; the SpaceX-ULA spat; managing risk at the border and the hunt for counter-UAV technology.
Hurricane Matthew strengthened to a “monster” Category 4 storm with maximum sustained winds of 140 mph on Oct. 6 as it approached Florida’s Space Coast, home to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral.
NASA will evaluate an assortment of secondary science and technically themed payload proposals as part of Exploration Mission-2, the first crewed test flight of the Space Launch System exploration rocket and Orion crew capsule.
Stratolaunch Systems and Orbital ATK have formed a partnership to use the six-engined, 385-ft.-span Stratolaunch carrier aircraft for air-launching up to three Pegasus XL vehicles on a single mission.
After satellite separation, an experiment was run by the European Space Agency (ESA) and Airbus Safran Launchers that will help with Ariane 6 development.
The Norwegian government has requested authorization to buy 12 additional Lockheed Martin F-35s in its 2017 national budget, allowing the country to participate in the last two years of a proposed international block buy.
Textron AirLand’s Scorpion jet, housed at Textron Aviation facilities in Wichita, is a potential military opportunity for Textron, Jefferies equity analyst Sheila Kahyaoglu wrote in a note to investors.
Pakistan Aeronautical Complex, the country’s state-owned aircraft producer, is closing its largest export deal to sell as many as 100 Super Mushshak training aircraft to Turkey.
In this week’s roundup, U.S. Army upgrades Hellfires; Philippines receive Korean light attack aircraft; Romania accepts Portugese F-16s; managing space traffic.
